In pipelines there are many cases when you are passing over element/attribute values from one xml structure to the other to prepare parameters for an embedded pipeline call (e.g. calling a db manager pipeline). As I have experienced the way to do this is to have XSLT processors and use xsl:value-of to prepare the structures and then do the actual call. This way you have lots of extra xslt processor calls in your pipeline. when I tried to circumvent it using e.g. aggregate(..., #xpointer(//action-id/child::text())) or similar constructs referring to attributes I found out #xpointer does not support attributes and text types. I believe it would make pipelines clearer and more convenient to write if there was support for this.
Am I right in this ? Or are there other alternatives?
I think it does support text and attributes. Can you give an example of a failing expression, if possible with the document on which it applies as well?
It should be noted that XPointer support is based on a pretty old version of the spec. It should be upgraded. I added an RFE to track this:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1087529&group_id=116683&atid=675663
-Erik
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